STEAM Week – Year 6

19th June 2024D Fawkes

Year 6 have loved taking part in STEAM week so far, developing a wide range of skills including teamwork and communication.

The children have been working in 4 different groups. Some groups have been coding, the coding instructs the robot to move around the Lego and complete certain missions, each of which can earn points. While some groups have done this, other groups and have been preparing their presentations. The presentations must outline a design for how an art is showcased. We have some excellent examples in Y6 so far including, a fidget table to support children with additional needs, a stopmotion app which helps younger children to construct Lego and an inflatasuit to help with jetty jumping and prevent injuries.

 

STEM Week – Year 5 – 17.6.24

18th June 2024Sophie Hawkins

Today, we continued with our STEM week activities.

We have been split into groups and in our groups we have started programming our Lego robot to complete various missions using the Lego models we built on Friday. As well as coding the robots, we have been producing a presentation to share with the judges, about sharing a hobby/interest with new people. We have looked at the careers of visual effects, stage management, sound engineering and museum co-ordinators to identify ways in which we could share our hobbies with others in an interesting and immersive way.

Marvellous Maya

18th June 2024Sophie Hawkins

As part of our Maya topic in History, we had a visit from a Maya warrior called Big Nose.

We had a fantastic day! We learnt about different aspects of Maya life: what they wore, what they ate, their numbers and even some different ways the Maya sacrificed people to please the gods!

We took part in drama activities in groups acting out Maya stories; how to prepare the most important drink from Maya times (chocolatl); a Maya ball game called Pok-a-Tok; and how to prepare a body for burial.

There were Maya artefacts for us to look at and we thought about what they might have been used for, and what clues they gave us about Maya life.

We ended the day all together acting out the Maya creation story. Did you know the Maya believed the first people were made from corn?

What a great start to our new History topic!

DT – Year 2 Beach Huts

22nd May 2024E Jones

This term, Year 2 were researching and designing beach huts as part of their DT. We looked into the main structure of beach huts around the world, discussed the materials and colours used to create them before designing our own. Finally, we enjoyed creating the structure and adding the internal decorations to create some wonderful beach huts.

Volcanoes and Earthquakes!

3rd May 2024jpowell

This week Y3 enjoyed a drama workshop with One Day Create all about Volcanoes and Earthquakes!
We explored the key aspects of the physical geography of volcanoes and earthquakes and examined current natural disasters and significant historical incidents though quizzes and being intrigued by the descriptions of different earthquakes and volcanoes around the world. We acted out and discussed what life would be like if natural disaster occurred in our area and expressed our ideas and feelings through voice, movement, role play and drama!

We also had a visit from Prime VR’s Richard who took us on a journey around the world to explore the different volcanoes! We were amazed how close up we got and it was fantastic to see active volcanoes erupt!

 

Year 3 explore local History!

9th February 2024C Whitehead

Year 3 have been learning lots about the Romans. This week, we had a special visitor  who came to teach us all about The Regina Tombstone. This amazing piece of history was found in South Shields! It is usually displayed at Arbeia Roman Fort but is currently on loan to the British Museum.

With our visitor, we looked closely at the tombstone with our historian heads on. One of the really interesting things about this tombstone is that the inscriptions is not only written in Latin, it also has a line of Palmyrene script as well, and this is unique in Roman Britain!

We thought about the meaning of monuments and then designed our own using creative art!

 

 

Marvellous Myths

23rd October 2023N Trotter

Year 5 have completed a lot of work recently on Greek myths, particularly looking at Herakles and his twelve labours.

Each class was tasked with acting out one of Herakles’ labours. All groups worked together to produce a fantastic… and very dramatic performance!

Props were used and character’s lines were created by the children.